Middle East: US again bombs Iran, which retaliates and threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz | TF1 Info

• The United States carried out new bombings against Iran at dawn Thursday, targeting military installations across the country.
• In retaliation, Iran has struck American bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, and is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz.
• The situation is flaring despite a ceasefire theoretically in force since April 8.

“An escalation”in the words of the Pakistani mediator, and a truce which only lasted for a while. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the United States carried out new bombings (nouvelle fenêtre) against Iran. According to the US military, were targeted “Iranian military surveillance facilities, communications systems and air defense sites across the country”. 

Explosions were heard on the island of Qeshm, in Minab, Sirik and in the port of Bandar Abbas, in the south of the country, and, according to local media, injured three people during the night.

Iran was quick to retaliate. The Revolutionary Guards announced that they had launched drones on the Ali al-Salem and Ahmad al-Jaber military bases in Kuwait, as well as on the Sheikh Isa air base in Bahrain, where the headquarters of the US 5th Fleet is located.

Twelve ballistic missiles (nouvelle fenêtre) were also fired against the Al-Azrak base in Jordan, also used by American forces. Air warning sirens sounded in Bahrain, and Kuwait closed its airspace, before reopening it in the morning.

Ceasefire

To understand this renewed tension, we have to go back to recent days. However, a ceasefire had come into force (nouvelle fenêtre) on April 8, after more than five weeks of bombing. But negotiations to end the war in the Middle East have visibly failed.

“We were really close to making a deal, but they kept leading us on.”Donald Trump lost his temper in front of the press on Wednesday and laconically announced his intention “to attack Iran very harshly”. His Defense Minister Pete Hegseth was just as direct: “If we have to negotiate with bombs, we will negotiate with bombs, and we are very good at that.”

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But it is the threat to the Strait of Hormuz that worries the international community the most. Tehran has in fact announced that the strait “will be closed until further notice”. “You are making the sacred Strait of Hormuz dangerous?! We will make this region hell for you”even threatened the commander of the Guardians’ aviation, Sardar Mousavi.

And this, while Donald Trump still claimed this Wednesday to have transited nearly 100 million barrels through this highly strategic strait and through which a fifth of the world’s trade in oil and natural gas normally circulates.